The date is December 5, 1938 two men meet at Union Square in New York city.
One named B. Hathaway, who came to interview the other man, Jacob Stein.
Stein looked medium height, with a humorous glint in his eye, and a smile already on his face.
Jacob Stein was a single 50 year old Jewish-Polish man living in lower East side of Manhattan. He lived in Poland until he was 17 where he had no schooling, and then moved to New York in 1905, still no schooling but he learned how to read english by himself. He had just lost his WPA job, which included green uniforms and picking up paper with long sticks in Union Square.
Part B -
African-Americans inline.
This is a good example of African-Americans in the great depression because all the people in the photo are inline for a job, and that makes it a god example because back then it was hard to get a job and people tried so hard to get on and they would stand in lines like this for hours. The billboard in the back makes it a little funny "There's no way like the American way," this is funny because we had such a bad economy, and that the "American way" seemed horrible during that time. Also during this time most African-Americans had to stand in line for everything, they were still treated unfairly.
The date is December 5, 1938 two men meet at Union Square in New York city.
One named B. Hathaway, who came to interview the other man, Jacob Stein.
Stein looked medium height, with a humorous glint in his eye, and a smile already on his face.
Jacob Stein was a single 50 year old Jewish-Polish man living in lower East side of Manhattan. He lived in Poland until he was 17 where he had no schooling, and then moved to New York in 1905, still no schooling but he learned how to read english by himself. He had just lost his WPA job, which included green uniforms and picking up paper with long sticks in Union Square.
Part B -
This is a good example of African-Americans in the great depression because all the people in the photo are inline for a job, and that makes it a god example because back then it was hard to get a job and people tried so hard to get on and they would stand in lines like this for hours. The billboard in the back makes it a little funny "There's no way like the American way," this is funny because we had such a bad economy, and that the "American way" seemed horrible during that time. Also during this time most African-Americans had to stand in line for everything, they were still treated unfairly.